This monologue is my own work. If you find it helpful in your own ministry context, I ask that you contact me first and give credit appropriately. I have seen the Lord! Come and see! Come and see! Jesus is risen! Alleluia! I can tell some of you don’t believe me. That’s okay, Pete and…

  John 18:33-37 Then Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered, “Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about me?” Pilate replied, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed…

Sorry, folks – I forgot to hit the record button on this one, so no audio this week. Enjoy! Usually I’m fairly up on the popular lingo, so I’m hesitant to admit to you that it was only a couple of months ago that I noticed that the internet seemed to be referring to a…

  Children learn almost everything by imitation. Babies mirror their parents’ facial expressions and eventually repeat the sounds that adults make, getting better and better at it until the sounds become words. Young children copy their parents’ speech patterns, even when their parents wish they wouldn’t. As they grow, they imitate the adults around them…

  “I, Edward the Eighth, of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Emperor of India, do hereby declare my irrevocable determination to renounce the throne, for myself and for my descendants, and my desire that effect should be given to this instrument of abdication immediately.” When King Edward wrote these…

  I’ve been on vacation for the last couple of weeks, so I’ve been thinking a bit about vacations. It seems to me that there are basically two kinds of vacations. One type is the exploratory vacation, when you go away from your home to see something you’ve never seen or experience a foreign culture…

  Well, it’s Trinity Sunday. Who would like to explain the doctrine of the Trinity? Me neither. And actually I’m pretty convinced that the people who put together the lectionary weren’t sure about it either, or they would have given us more helpful readings to work with. The fun thing about Trinity Sunday for preachers…

  Ezekiel found himself in a valley filled with death, without knowing exactly how he came to be there, or, in fact, exactly where he was. The floor of the valley as far as he could see was littered with dry bones. A tragedy, to be sure. A battle? A massacre? A natural disaster? Some…